Gestures Quotes - Page 30

• All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

  Steven Erikson

  Art, Self, Risk

  "Why Did You Bother Telling Me That?: Steven Erikson Talks with Peter Orullian". Interview with Peter Orullian, www.tor.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we find it more natural to write down the thoughts rather than the deeds of our characters. But speaking as a teacher who has spent some twenty years slogging through manuscripts where thoughts and exposition pile up as thick as the aftermath of a California mudslide, I can attest to the power of the evocative detail, gesture, or figment of speech.

  Les Standiford

  Running, Teacher, Character

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• Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Business, Finance, Traders

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.19, Random House

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• I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.

  Michael Cunningham

  Book, Years, Needs

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• I try to do romantic gestures all the time.

  Armie Hammer

  Trying, Romantic Gestures

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row of the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Girl, Men, Boys

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• Television is likely to do more to revolutionize politics than sound broadcasting did. Political candidates may have to adopt new techniques to benefit from visual radio: their dress, their smiles and gestures, all will be important. How they look, as well as what they say, may determine to an appreciable extent their popularity. The eyes of the public will be upon them.

  David Sarnoff

  Eye, Political, Important

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• Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the simplest movement, the briefest meditation, and the contents of one breath cycle are made potent.

  Donna Farhi

  Yoga, Practice, Breathing

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• It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every gesture, even the smile of the human face, must become a hymn of adoration, an offering, a prayer. One should offer not what one has but what one is.

  Paul Evdokimov

  Spiritual, Prayer, Hymns

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• Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments.

  Gregory J. P. Godek

  Love You, Romance, Hug

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• The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Stuff, Creation

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.11, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

  John Marin

  Art, Animal, Trying

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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• The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting captures a certain resistance of paint, a prodding gesture of the brush, a speed and insistence in the face of mindless matter.

  James Elkins

  Memories, Matter, Resistance

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.2, Routledge

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• I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility similar to an impulse in an insect's nervous system that it could somehow reduce to dust a steel beam by endlessly crawling over it.

  Joel-Peter Witkin

  Dust, Connections, Cosmos

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• The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details].

  Nathan Oliveira

  Reality, Mind, Details

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• But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.

  John Milton

  Art, Soul, Lust

  John Milton, “Comus”

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• I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner, for I knew that all creation must be chaos first, and then gestures in the void before it can cast out the completed thing.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Long, Paper, Lines

  Hilaire Belloc (2015). “Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)”, p.795, Delphi Classics

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• And they're [Coen brothers] so smart, they're so witty, they have such an extraordinary way of communicating with an audience in a such a clean way - with just a few lines or just a gesture from a character, they say so much.

  Angelina Jolie

  Witty, Brother, Smart

  "Angelina Jolie, Jack O’connell, Garret Hedlund, Miyavi, and Finn Wittrock Talk Unbroken, the Challenging Adaptation, the Coen Brothers, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 24, 2014.

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• I know the microphones and cameras are on me. They're looking at my gestures and taking it and running with it because of things that have happened in the past. It's very unfair.

  Terrell Owens

  Running, Past, Cameras

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• In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

  Shahzia Sikander

  Painting, Ends, Ritual

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• Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in areas like health, housing, education and employment.

  Warren Mundine

  Promise, Needs, Employment

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The real question, after all, is not the quantity of life, but its quality, its depth, its purity, its fortitude, its fineness of spirit and gesture of soul.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Real, Soul, Quality

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.237, Lulu Press, Inc

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• For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.

  Elaine de Kooning

  Color, Space, Light

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• Knowledge is the reward of action. For it is by doing things that one becomes transformed. Executing a symbolical gesture, actually living through, to the very limit, a particular role, one comes to realize the truth inherent in the role. Suffering its consequences, one fathoms and exhausts its contents.

  Heinrich Zimmer

  Suffering, Roles, Rewards

  Heinrich Zimmer (2013). “Philosophies of India”, p.533, Routledge

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• Words of encouragement, a little respect, simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for studetns to study, learn, and grow.

  Donna Fargo

  Teacher, Encouragement, Kindness

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